5 Best american books like The Catherine Wheel by Jean Stafford

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The Catherine Wheel

By: Jean Stafford

3.84

Format: 281 pages, Paperback

Summering at her country home in Maine, Katherine Congreve is afraid John Shipley's son will blame …

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1. The Grass Harp, Including A Tree of Night and Other Stories

By: Truman Capote

4.00

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Set on the outskirts of a small Southern town, The Grass Harp tells the story of three endearing mi… read more

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  • classics
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"So little, once it has changed, changes back."

-Truman Capote, The Grass Harp, Including A Tree of Night and Other Stories

"Dreams are the mind of the soul and the secret truth about us."

-Truman Capote, The Grass Harp, Including A Tree of Night and Other Stories

"If you are not admired no one will take the trouble to disapprove."

-Truman Capote, The Grass Harp, Including A Tree of Night and Other Stories

"If you can hear time passing it makes the day last longer. I've come to appreciate a long day."

-Truman Capote, The Grass Harp, Including A Tree of Night and Other Stories

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2. An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter

By: César Aira , Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews

3.88

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter is the story of a moment in the life of the German ar… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
"Were the “pampas,"

-César Aira, An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter

"...the transformation would be accomplished not in the dimension of time but in that of meaning."

-César Aira, An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter

"A drove of mules the size of ants appeared in silhouette on a ridgetop path, moving at a star's pace. The mules were driven by human intelligence and commercial interests, expertise in breeding and b…"

-César Aira, An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter

"A bird flashed across the empty sky. A cart immobile on the horizon, like a midday star. How could a plain like this be remade? Yet someone would, no doubt, attempt to repeat their journey, sooner or…"

-César Aira, An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter

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3. Sleepless Nights

By: Geoffrey O'Brien , Elizabeth Hardwick

3.74

Format: 410 pages,

In Sleepless Nights a woman looks back on her life--the parade of people, the shifting background o… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • american
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4. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

By: Muriel Spark

3.70

Format: 150 pages, Paperback

A teacher at a girl's school in Edinburgh during the 1930s comes into conflict with school authorit… read more

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  • classics
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"It's only possible to betray where loyalty is due"

-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

"[...] there were other people's Edinburghs quite different from hers [...]"

-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

"... flattening their scorn underneath the chariot wheels of her superiority."

-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

"To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul."

-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

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5. The Corrections

By: Jonathan Franzen

3.84

Format: 653 pages, Paperback

"The Corrections" is a grandly entertaining novel for the new century - a comic, tragic masterpiece… read more

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  • novels
  • american
  • fiction
"To be so vigorous and healthy and yet so nothing. "

-Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections

"Brooklyn was like Philadelphia made better by its proximity to Manhattan."

-Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections

"His problem consisted of a burning wish not to have done the things he'd done."

-Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections

"The shame and disorder in his house were like the shame and disorder in his head."

-Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections

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6. The Evening of the Holiday

By: Shirley Hazzard

3.50

Format: None pages,

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  • classics
  • fiction
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7. Don't Look Now and Other Stories

By: Daphne du Maurier

3.82

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

A married couple on holiday in Venice are caught up in a sinister series of events. A lonely school… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"It embarrassed her, as a child, to think that her father had fallen in love, or, if men must love, then it should have been someone else, someone dark, mysterious and profoundly clever, not an ordina…"

-Daphne du Maurier, Don't Look Now and Other Stories

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8. They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

By: Horace McCoy

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The marathon dance craze flourished during the 1930s, but the underside was a competition and viole… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • american

9. Great Granny Webster

By: Honor Moore , Caroline Blackwood

4.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

Great Granny Webster is Caroline Blackwood's masterpiece. Heiress to the Guinness fortune, Blackwoo… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction

10. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

By: Raymond Carver

3.87

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Alternate-cover edition can be found  In his second collection, Carver establishes his reputation … read more

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11. The Go-Between

By: Colm Tóibín , L.P. Hartley

3.99

Format: 326 pages, Paperback

L.P. Hartley's moving exploration of a young boy's loss of innocence The Go-Between is edited with … read more

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"You flew too near the sun and you were scorched."

-Colm Tóibín, The Go-Between

"To see things as they really were--what an empoverishment!"

-Colm Tóibín, The Go-Between

"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."

-Colm Tóibín, The Go-Between

"With the opening of the door, and the installation of electric light in the cupboard, the skeletons had crumbled into dust."

-Colm Tóibín, The Go-Between

12. 99 Stories of God

By: Joy Williams

4.09

Format: 156 pages, Kindle Edition

Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist Joy Williamshas a one-of-a-kind gift for capturing … read more

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13. The Magic Toyshop

By: Angela Carter

4.33

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

One night Melanie walks through the garden in her mother's wedding dress. The next morning her worl… read more

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14. The Savage Detectives

By: Roberto Bolaño , Natasha Wimmer

4.48

Format: 334 pages,

New Year's Eve, 1975: Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, founders of the visceral realist movement in p… read more

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15. Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls

By: David Sedaris

3.85

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

A guy walks into a bar car and... From here the story could take many turns. When this guy is David… read more

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16. Felicia's Journey

By: William Trevor

3.22

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Felicia is unmarried, pregnant, and penniless. She steals away from a small Irish town and drifts t… read more

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17. Housekeeping

By: Marilynne Robinson

3.94

Format: 450 pages,

A modern classic, Housekeepingis the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up hap… read more

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18. The Best of Everything

By: Rona Jaffe

3.64

Format: 320 pages,

When Rona Jaffe's superb page-turner was first published in 1958, it changed contemporary fiction f… read more

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19. The Lost Daughter

By: Elena Ferrante

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Elena Ferrante will blow you away."-Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones From the author of Th… read more

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20. The Sportswriter

By: Richard Ford

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

As a sportswriter, Frank Bascombe makes his living studying people--men, mostly--who live entirely … read more

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21. Disgrace

By: J.M. Coetzee

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Set in post-apartheid South Africa, J. M. Coetzee's searing novel tells the story of David Lurie, a… read more

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22. Some Tame Gazelle

By: Barbara Pym

3.64

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

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23. A Dance to the Music of Time: 1st Movement (A Dance to the Music of Time, #1-3)

By: Anthony Powell

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Anthony Powell's universally acclaimed epic encompasses a four-volume panorama of twentieth century… read more

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24. Old Masters: A Comedy

By: Thomas Bernhard , Ewald Osers

4.29

Format: 426 pages, Paperback

In this exuberantly satirical novel, the tutor Atzbacher has been summoned by his friend Reger to m… read more

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25. Forbidden Notebook

By: Alba de Céspedes

4.19

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

With a foreword by Jhumpa Lahiri, Quaderno Proibito is a classic domestic novel by the Italian-Cu… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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26. Our House

By: Louise Candlish

3.69

Format: 404 pages, Hardcover

On a bright January morning in the London suburbs, a family moves into the house they’ve just bough… read more

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  • fiction
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27. The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By

By: Georges Simenon

3.81

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

Kees Popinga is an average man, a solid citizen who might enjoy a game of chess in the evening. But… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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28. A Children's Bible

By: Lydia Millet

3.72

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A Children’s Bible follows a group of twelve eerily mature children on a forced vacation with their… read more

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  • fiction
"The nuclear threat. So quaint."

-Lydia Millet, A Children's Bible

"Once we lived in a summer country."

-Lydia Millet, A Children's Bible

"I felt an itch and thought, Is there a tick crawling on me? Right this minute? Burrowing into my skin? And then I thought, Wait. Forget the tick. Why are we always complaining? We get to be alive."

-Lydia Millet, A Children's Bible

"If you could be nothing, you could also be everything. Once my molecules had dispersed, I would be here forever. Free. Part of the timeless. The sky and the ocean would also be me. Molecules never di…"

-Lydia Millet, A Children's Bible

Cover of Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5) by Elizabeth Strout

29. Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)

By: Elizabeth Strout

4.46

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a hopeful, healing novel about new friend… read more

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  • fiction
"...Bob caught a glimpse of himself in the store window that was right there. He was startled. Who was that tall older man? Was that him? A sense of bewilderment came to him. He turned away, then turn…"

-Elizabeth Strout, Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)

Cover of The Catherine Wheel by Jean Stafford

30. The Catherine Wheel

By: Jean Stafford

3.84

Format: 281 pages, Paperback

Summering at her country home in Maine, Katherine Congreve is afraid John Shipley's son will blame … read more

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  • classics
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  • american

16 Best fiction books like The Catherine Wheel by Jean Stafford

Transform Your Habits

The Grass Harp, Including A Tree of Night and Other Stories

Truman Capote

4.00

Transform Your Habits

An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter

César Aira , Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews

3.88

Transform Your Habits

Sleepless Nights

Geoffrey O'Brien , Elizabeth Hardwick

3.74

Transform Your Habits

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Muriel Spark

3.70

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16 Top audiobook books like Our House by Louise Candlish

Transform Your Habits

I See You

Clare Mackintosh

3.87

Transform Your Habits

Everyone Here Is Lying

Shari Lapena

3.80

Transform Your Habits

Eye For An Eye

M.J. Arlidge

4.09

Transform Your Habits

The Mother

T.M. Logan

4.02

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